Lyrics/Notes to save my aching head

You can change the content of your notes page by song state by making it state-dependent.

  • Tick “text” in the State Behavior panel for your relevant lyrics block
  • For every song state, enter the relevant lyrics / chords in this text block and save the state

Now whenever you change to a new song state, the lyrics will change accordingly.

There is no scrolling, though; and you’ll need a new song state with every “page change” for your lyrics.

Let me offer you an alternative: I have the exact same issue as you - too many songs, chords and lyrics, and a big fat file folder doesn’t really look too rock’n’roll on stage… So I developed LivePrompter, a dedicated teleprompter for live musicians, based on the chordpro format, running on the Windows platform. Since I am one of Cantabile’s biggest fans, it also cooperates well with Cantabile - you can build setlists in LivePrompter and then automatically load the corresponding songs in Cantabile; you can also remote-control LivePrompter (play, pause, next song) from your master keyboard controls via Cantabile.

Take a look at this thread - the combination of LivePrompter and Cantabile is discussed in detail there (haven’t gotten around to building a web site for LivePrompter yet.

There is also an installer for LivePrompter - you can download it here.

Did I mention that LivePrompter is free?

Cheers,

Torsten